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Modest vs Brag - What's the difference?

modest | brag |

As adjectives the difference between modest and brag

is that modest is not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble while brag is first-rate.

As a verb brag is

to boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, can do, or has done.

As a noun brag is

a boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.

As an adverb brag is

proudly; boastfully.

modest

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble.
  • Small, moderate in size.
  • He earns a modest amount of money.
    Her latest novel was a modest success.
  • (especially of behaviour or clothing) Avoiding being sexually suggestive.
  • Synonyms

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    Antonyms

    * immodest

    Derived terms

    * modest proposal * modesty

    brag

    English

    Verb

  • To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, can do, or has done.
  • to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money
  • * Shakespeare
  • Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, / Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
  • To boast of.
  • *Shakespeare
  • Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade

    Synonyms

    * boast

    Derived terms

    * braggart * bragging rights * humblebrag

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Caesar made not here his brag / Of "came", and "saw", and "overcame".
  • The thing which is boasted of.
  • * Milton
  • Beauty is Nature's brag .
  • (by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.
  • (Chesterfield)

    Adjective

    (bragger)
  • First-rate.
  • (archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
  • * Ben Jonson
  • a brag young fellow

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete) proudly; boastfully
  • (Fuller)

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